The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown

Date: 
July 2, 1880

Deceased

Unknown
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say That the deceased came to his death by being accidently smothered by his mrother on the first day of July A D 1880

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. D. Tiller
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Samson Campbell
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

Samson Campbell Sworn Sais Deceased in the child of Dick Campbell I saw Deceased about sun up in the morning of the first of July and it was dead it was on a pallet with its Mother. Its Mother was lying in her side and the Deceased head was under her breast . . .

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